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We Have Received Two Numbers Of A Series Which Bears

the title of "Illustrated Gleanings from the Classics" (Field and Tuer), "Classics" being understood, it will be seen, in a sense somewhat different from that which the word......

The Late Miss Hollingford. By Rosa Mulholland. (blaokie...

tale appeared many years ago in AU the Year Round, and was honoured by being printed in the same volume of the Tauchnitz collection with Charles Dickens's "No Thoroughfare." It......

In The Fort. By Sarah Tytler. With Frontispiece. (hodder And

Stoughton.)—This is a tale of Anglo-Indian life. The scene is laid prin- cipally at a small station, and the latter half of the book is concerned with the fortunes of the......

Rags And Rainbows. By Margaret Hayoraft. (cassell And...

is a tale drawn from a store which, unhappily, is inexhaustible, the troubles and sorrows of the poor. A certain Mrs. Murphy is falsely convicted on the charge of having......

Modern Anecdotes. Edited, With Notes, By W. Davenport...

and Adams.)—The editor claims for his collection that it is modern. " They do not, for the most part, go farther back than Walpole's ' Letters,' and they come down as far as the......

Our Gracious Queen : Jubilee Stories. By Mrs. 0. F.

Walton. (Religious Tract Society.)—Mrs. Walton has collected here a number of anecdotes of the Queen's life, and these are illustrated by pictures, taken, where it has been......

Songs From Shakespeare. Illustrated. (cassell And...

unworthily illustrated ; the faces are pretty or humorous ; the scenes from Nature faithfully rendered ; the page-borders grace- ful. And four of the songs, " Where the Bee......

A Few Good Women, And What They Teach Us. By

Catherine Mary MacSorley. (John Hogg.)—Mrs. Somerville's singularly interesting story is the first in this volume, and perhaps the best. But there is one of a person little......

Freedom's Sword : A Tale Of The Days Of Wallace

and Bruce. By Annie S. Swan. With Eight Original Illustrations by C. J. Stanilaud, R.I. (Cassell and Co.)—The heroes of the story, Wallace and Bruce, are well presented, and......

Our Darlings. Edited By T. J. Barnardo. (j. F. Shaw.)—this

is the twelfth annual volume of a magazine, edited by Dr. Bernardo, and described as "The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories." One of its principal features is to be......

Current Literature.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. WE have received the annual volumes of two magazines which it is needless to commend to our readers. Good Words, edited by Donald Macleod, D.D. (Isbister and......

Twice Married. By James Carton. (griffith, Ferran, And...

this is meant for a book of the season to please and instruct young readers, we must call it a mistake. It is a commonplace tale of bigamy, or apparent bigamy, well meant......

The Prairie Chief : A Tale. By R. M. Ballantyne.

With Illustra- tions. (James Nisbet and Co.)—The title-page enumerates twenty- seven books, followed by "&o., &o.," of which Mr. Ballantyne is the author ; it may therefore be......

The Adventurous Voyage Of The Polly,' And Other Stories. By

S. Whitchurch Sadler, R.N. (S.P.C.K.)—We have hero four capital stories, first published some years ago in the Boys' Own Paper, and now very properly reprinted. The heroes hunt......

In The Historical Scrap-book (cassell And Co.), The...

we suppose, utilised a select number of engravings relating to famous events and personages in the history of these Kingdoms, out of the vast store of illustrations which must......